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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Agriculture Reading Picks


  1. As Prairies Get Plowed for Biofuels, Greens Demand EPA Act | Bloomberg
  2. A breakthrough to bring driverless tractors into the mainstream? A startup in Iowa says it has fixes to many of the obstacles. | Star Tribune
  3. Nutrition Goddess Marion Nestle on the One Thing She’d Change About How We Eat. | Bon Appetit
  4. ‘Heartbreaking’ Drought Forces Canadian Ranchers to Cull Herds | Bloomberg
  5. PepsiCo to pump in $5 m to promote sustainable farming in India | The Hindu Business Line
  6. Chinese tech companies get into farming - NetEase and Alibaba find the field is ripe for disruption | The Economist
  7. Since its inception as an agricultural boomtown, Gilroy, California, has been known as the “garlic capital of the world”—and town leaders want it to stay that way | Curbed
  8. Forests Emerge as a Major Overlooked Climate Factor - New work at the intersection of atmospheric science and ecology is finding that forests can influence rainfall and climate from across a continent. | Quanta Magazine
  9. A chemical found in liverwort has surprising similarities to the THC in marijuana | LA Times
  10. The Death Of Algal Biofuel | OilPrice
  11. Working to reclaim and rebuild our food systems from the ground up | The Conversation

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